I’ve written about this before - a view on why both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 will co-exist. But the matter of fact is, I have a preference. I run Vista as my primary OS, yet I see no reason whatsoever to upgrade to Windows 7.
Much maligned as Vista was, two service packs down the [...]
I study in an engineering university full of geeks and nerds. Most of them use some (pirated) version of Windows, though they all know how superiorly Linux would perform on our sprawling LAN network.
They do not. And one of the major reasons is that there are some particular softwares that everyone here uses, but cannot [...]
Introduction
It is no secret that openSUSE has always been my Linux of choice. I have always found it to support my hardware, do what I expect it to, and otherwise work correctly, practically out of the box. And as always, I excitedly install the latest, newest distros, hoping that they will give it a run [...]
There is a lot of buzz on the internet about Wolfram Alpha. It is an old concept with a stunning development: take knowledge and make it computable with computer algorithms. Difficult, but possible.
I do not intend to explain what Wolfram Alpha is - it is worth a look for anybody. What I need to point [...]
Introduction
My previous experience with Ubuntu has been good. 8.10 did very well for me, even though I remained strictly in the openSUSE 11.1 camp.
People were expecting big changes in 8.10, but it never came to that. Even now, in 9.04 (a.k.a. the Jaunty Jackalope), the expectations of a big change were there, though somewhat damped.
As [...]
